Archie Mayo ("The Mayor of Hell"/"Bordertown"/"A Night in
Casablanca")directs this stiff
George Raft gangster drama that's based on the
story "Single Night" by Louis
Bromfield. It's written by Kathyrn
Scols and Vincent Lawrence.

Joe
Anton (George Raft), ex-boxer, worked himself up from the bottom to
become the wealthy owner of a Park Ave. speakeasy called the "55." The
mug now wants to learn how to act with class and hires Mrs.
Mabel Jellyman (Alison Skipworth) to tutor him in proper speech and
culture. Meanwhile Joe, in his aim for respectability, rejects his intensely jealous gun moll girlfriend
Iris
Dawn (Wynne
Gibson) in favor of a classy Park Avenue socialite, Jerry
Healy (Constance Cummings), who visits his speakeasy to bring back
memories of when she lived here before the Wall Street crash forced her
family out.

It's a bore until the 40
minute mark when Mae West, in her film debut, enters as the coarse but
animated loose-living Maudie
Triplett, Joe's former
girlfriend, who crashes his dinner-date with Jerry and brings some life
to the party. Too bad she had such a minor role and so little
screentime, but she stole every scene she was in. Mae's best joke has
her respond to someone's question of "Do you believe in love at first
sight? Mae responds: "I don't know, but it saves a lot of time."